Sign here the petition against the current plans of the BMC.
In your name a message will be send to the university with the request not to build a new animal testing laboratory, but to go for alternatives (feel free to change the example letter). Do you want to know more? Take a look at the website or continue to read below the petition.

OPGELET: het aantal personen die de petitie hebben ondertekend (+600!) is even niet up-to-date. Je hoeft dus niet dubbel te tekenen als jouw naam er niet bij staat.PAY ATTENTION: the amount of people that signed the petition (+600!) is not up-to-date for a while. You don’t have to sign double if your name is not there.

Annually the university in Maastricht uses around 5000 animals for animal testing. While the same university pretends to be progressive in the area of science, the request for the building-permit shows that scaling down the amount of animal testing is still not a priority. Shockingly, the amount of animals that can be kept is not decreasing.

The investment that the university is putting into the new BMC is 22 times the sum of money that the Dutch government invests annually in the project ”Transitie Proefdiervrije Innovatie” (Transition Animal testing-free Innovation). That’s why we are calling out, with this petition, to the university to invest in ethical research methods and further development of those, in stead of investing in an animal testing laboratory.

Other actions against animal testing in Limburg have proven to be successful; the university in Maastricht stopped testing on Labradors after protest and the construction of a new animal testing lab in Venray was halted because of a protest-campaign. Let’s make also this campaign to a success, sign the petition today! Stop the BMC!